The Battle of Sugar Point occurs on Leech Lake. Soldiers from the Third Infantry had accompanied US Marshal R. T. O'Connor to arrest Bagone-giizhig of the Bear Island Pillager Ojibwe. Bagone-giizhig had protested practices of lumber companies on the reservation, and he was in turn accused of illegal liquor sales. When O'Connor came to arrest him, Bagone-giizhig was rescued by a group of Ojibwe. O'Connor then requested assistance from General John M.

While under construction to provide water power for mills on the Mississippi River around St. Anthony, a tunnel under Hennepin Island gives way. The 2,000-foot collapse threatens to divert water from the main falls and cut the power source for mills along the river. Local citizens work to plug the hole until the river freezes, and then a dam is built to allow for more permanent measures. The repair job would require ten years to complete.

Minnesota senator Eugene J. McCarthy announces he will challenge President Lyndon B. Johnson for the 1968 Democratic nomination for president. The University of Minnesota Young Democrats chapter becomes the first in the nation to back McCarthy, who despite early successes does not earn his party's nod.

Dave Winfield is born in St. Paul. He may be the most versatile athlete the state has produced. Based on his performance at the University of Minnesota, professional teams in three different sports basketball, football, and baseball would draft him. His choice would be baseball and he would play for several teams, including the Twins, accumulating twelve all-star game appearances, 3,110 career hits, and 465 home runs. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2001.

The Red Lake and Pembina bands of Ojibwe sign the Old Crossing treaty, ceding to the US government three million acres of land in the Red River Valley. Senator Alexander Ramsey and Indian Agent Ashley C. Morrill represent the United States; Moose Dung, Crooked Arm, Little Rock, and Little Shell are among the Ojibwe signers. The treaty is named for a ford in the Red Lake River, near Red Lake Falls.

The MinnesotaCare health program, benefiting uninsured low-income Minnesota residents, goes into effect. MinnesotaCare is financed by state tax dollars, provider taxes, and premiums paid by enrollees.

On his second visit to the region, Frenchman Pierre Charles Le Sueur arrives at the mouth of the Blue Earth River. At this site he builds Fort L'Huillier, named for a chemist in France who had told Le Sueur that the blue clay found at this location on his first trip was rich in copper. Le Sueur travels with two tons of the clay to New Orleans, leaving nineteen men to continue operations. Further testing shows that the clay contains no copper, and when Le Sueur returned to the Blue Earth River the fort had disappeared. In 1907 A.

At La Pointe, Wisconsin, a number of Ojibwe bands sign a treaty transferring Minnesota's "Arrowhead" region to the U.S. government for about $400,000. Signers for the Grand Portage band include Little Englishman and Like a Reindeer; Balsom and Loon's Foot sign for the Fond du Lacs; and Hole-in-the-Day and Berry Hunter sign for the Mississippi River band. Henry C. Gilbert and David B.

Sauk Centre's Sinclair Lewis receives the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first American so honored. His popular titles include Main Street, Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, and Babbitt.

The Northwestern Telephone Exchange Company of Minneapolis is organized, with fifty-three subscribers. The exchange begins operating in February 1879, and a line is strung to St. Paul in April 1879.